# This script will make almost ANY partition bootable, regardless the filesystem# used on it. bootinst.sh/.bat is only for FAT filesystems, while this one should# work everywhere. Moreover it setups a 'slaxchanges' directory to be used for# persistent changes.

Does the usb drive still have to be formatted FAT32 so it will be bootable after running liloinst.sh even though it is supposed to "make almost ANY partition bootable, regardless the filesystem"?

Yea I remember, I was still using a PS1 computer and could no longerupgrade to the then new version of RedHat. I lot of help was offered from a list w/omuch helping. Until finally a guy asked: What kind of computer are you using. I answered a PS1. No wonder, he came back, those new programs will not work anymore on those machines, I have not seen one (a PS1) for a long time. So I had to get myself a PS2.

I've just tried running the liloinst.sh script to make my usb stick bootable. It works! VL 6.0 Light LIVE is excellent and seems to work well except that the "Setting up apm..." step failed during boot. (I booted a laptop from the usb stick). It also shut down strangely. It showed a bunch of messages and said it couldn't find the poweroff command and that there were no more processes left in that runlevel. These things might be due to it running off of the usb stick but I don't know.

I've just tried running the liloinst.sh script to make my usb stick bootable.

I runned the bootinst.sh toboot from USB and my netbook flied. After XFCE and KDE4 on other distro's, this is faster. Much faster. And I am waiting for some time to install it, to compare bootspeed and usability with the "others" (ic Pardus-linux and Kuki-linux). It's also funny to mention that Kuki is a netbook specialized ubuntu distro, which doing nothing better than this vl. It means that with an acer aspire one (150) everything works out of the box (wlan with wpa also).

Funny story.Last night, after realizing this could be pulled off, I decided to run this script on an external USB drive that I own.

So I downloaded one of the 6.0 SOHO alpha ISO's, extracted it to a 2gb partition in the drive (first partition on it) and ran the script.Plug it in to my lapop, and voi la!. I can boot off it.This provides a great development environment for me, since I'm constantly having to burn CD-rw's to debug the gui installer... This is much... much easier.I had forgotten about that external usb drive.

Seems that 1gb of RAM will support the 'toram' option. The max RAM for this machine is listed as 1gb but I am going to try to bump it up to 2gb. Hopefully it will support the increase because it seems like 1gb is probably the bare minimum to get the 'toram' option to work.

This set-up really works well. I also use Puppy on this machine and find the responsiveness (using 'toram') to be very comparable. Hopefully I will be able to bump the RAM to 2gb so I can add OpenOffice and Firestarter. This is the one area that Puppy has a clear advantage for this application - size.

Bottom line - VL 6.0 Light Live is an outstanding tool and very well done.....!

The ISO is quite fat. I didn't think much about using "toram", so I threw in kernel sources and nvidia driver.

The image can be trimmed down significally. I'm working on a personal version for use as a live tool. It's smaller, with empty root password, no auto-mounting of volumes and defaulting to cli, vga=normal. That something you would be interested in trying?

The ISO is quite fat. I didn't think much about using "toram", so I threw in kernel sources and nvidia driver.

The image can be trimmed down significally. I'm working on a personal version for use as a live tool. It's smaller, with empty root password, no auto-mounting of volumes and defaulting to cli, vga=normal. That something you would be interested in trying?

I tried to install to my harddrive with vliveinstall. It opens gparted which then is looking forever for the partitions until I abort it. I then opened gparted separatelywhich very quickly found all the partitions and disabled the command gparted in vliveinstall. After that the installation proceeded. I stopped it since it went very slowand the partition I installed to had not been formated previously.